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Great big judgments like who to hire or who buy a newspaper from. Really judgments like thinking that Mexican busboys should learn to speak up to Mengele. Everyone is a little bit racist today. Everyone's a little bit racist Ok. Alex night. Will be based on truth. Everyone. Heard this one is a plane going down to sleep. As a priest. Joe who will should carry both lots of people tell what Joe Well of course you don't you're black but I bet you tell Polack jokes right sure I do look stupid bollocks don't you think it's a little racist. I guess. A little bit race since. The little bit. We're all. Would have to love. Every month a little bit. We just. Love. Christ 2 I feel good. Standing black man. Jesus Christ. This was not this is. Was light now I'm pretty sure Jesus was because she's this was Jewish. That me. Recycled. How many lives. Do you speak. Every. Company or were you told. Do you will you it's not easy and I'm every. Sorry. You will race. Through. The. Lens of it a bit hasty. And some That's from Avenue Q Did I Oh for heaven's sakes I sing what I've done I wonder if I was talking to myself on the microphone a minute ago when I was playing that music and talking to myself think I might have been but rest said it wasn't for you I'm sorry if it upset you from Quora dot com one of the questions asked this last week was how is it that many u.s. Cities have poor gang run neighborhoods that are quite close to affluent neighborhoods and system sort of informal agreement between police and gangs that prevents those gangs from entering the affluent neighborhoods and this answer is by Howard cult. When I worked in a prison I asked the people there why so many were doing time for stealing vehicles worth less than a $1000.00 Why wouldn't they try to get more expensive merchandise and here's some of the reasons they gave their very scared of wealthy people and wealthy neighborhoods whether this belief is true or not they think police will shoot them just for being seen walking in a wealthy neighborhood there's a more correct belief that a wealthy person can kill them if they're on a wealthy person's property and not be charged for a crime it's like visiting a foreign country for them. Wealthy people protect themselves better better locks on doors gated neighborhoods private security companies on patrol vehicle alarms video cameras on houses ability to hire private resources to assist in going after wrongdoer etc wealthy people play unfair and don't know the rules these were the actual statements used an important factor in crime in the poor gangland neighborhoods is the concept of quote snitches get stitches poor people will not call the police if they're victims of a crime for fear of retribution from the local gang somebody who doesn't vote police may be seen as a whiny bitch and ostracized by family and other members of the community in affluent neighborhoods people don't think twice about calling police pressing charges showing up at sentencing hearings etc There are more witnesses around affluent neighborhoods have stay at home moms servants workmen of various types that cetera these witnesses are also not conditioned to not snitched like in the poorer neighborhoods the bread and butter for gangs to venture out of their neighborhoods is actually lower income working class neighborhoods these neighborhoods have enough good stuff decent electronic devices lawnmowers tools etc to steal but they're almost completely empty during the day as everyone has gone to work. In a less important factor the affluent neighborhoods are where the kingpins live I worked in one city where the street gangs were pretty heavy north of a particular street south of that same street was a country club community leaders of Mexican cartels retired mafia bosses high ranking figures in the Nation of Islam not really criminal but seen as the most powerful gang by other gangs as well as city council members and C.E.O.'s of large local companies lived in that neighborhood there was once even a rumor that some you KUSA lived there it was known by all gangs that you did not do any activity south of that street you never knew if the person you messed with supplied cocaine to the entire region or if they had a small army at their disposal they could eradicate you and your gang the overall fear of wealthy people in general and the idea that the wealthy people play by different rules are probably the 2 main reasons why street criminals leave the more affluent neighborhoods alone and kill Anderson answered and my home town the police have a map with a pin for every crime in one part of the town there is one street with a rented apartments all other streets have only apartments bought by the person living there this means that the street with rented apartments will how is all people living on welfare and straight with rented apartments are dotted with pins surrounding streets has not even one a lot of your explanations do not apply no alarms no mafia bosses I guess Rich people are just scary. And here is an article that I read in bits and pieces to us but originally came from Mike fire Smith dot blog. The title of that web blog is to Hickory head hermit and this is a piece called beds by Mike fire Smith Israel name. 20 something years ago Mom bought herself a bed sounds like a long time sure but most people are fairly happy with their beds and don't change often I've had the same bed now for over 20 years myself I'm thinking about an upgrade a king sized bed would certainly mean more room for me and my 3 dogs mom's old bed was one that lifted the foot and head of the bed with the remote and never faltered or failed which I find impressive shopping for beds was interesting the 1st salesman we spoke with at a place we saw a good deal was fired by the time we got back we backtracked because shopping online isn't mom's thing and when we were talking prices with the young sales clerk she added the price of the based and the mattress wrong I knew it was wrong because I once worked with math every day and I told her so she looked at her cellphone as if it were a holy relic and said Well that's what it is but no she recalculated and was surprised she was over a $1000.00 wrong. So we buy the bed and wait for delivery the appointed hour arrives and the guys in the truck huddle up to discuss strategy one of them gets out to inform me that they forgot the mattress they have to go back in and get it and it will take every bit of 2 hours this isn't going smoothly Have you noticed the 1st guy gets fired 2nd sales person doesn't understand numbers and now this in a fashion I look that up it means become Don't worry Life isn't about perfection I tell the guys it's Ok if they stop for lunch just get it here today and they seem a little stunned I'm not pissed why bother to be angry at this point it's not going to make them go any faster is not going to help me at all they return with all they need and set up those Very well I help mom put the sheets on and the new comforter and suddenly mom has a roomy new bed and but the lower Amadeus is impressed I don't know what that means but the old bed it's like a relic from a different age who weighs 3 or 4000000000 tons getting it out by myself isn't a problem because all I have to do is push it out the back door and load it onto my truck from the walkway to the studio formerly known as she shed so that c.c. Were giving it away to a friend who has health problems and so away I go. Problem is this the guy with health problems has gotten worse he can't help me unload the bed at all His sister is there all 100 pounds of her but that's all we have between the 2 of us we get off the truck through the porch ups and steps through 2 rooms and finally get it set up this is a guy who has been sleeping in a recliner for several years now because he has breathing issues last night he got to lie down in a bed he can sleep in read his books and basically feel like he's living a normal life again and the television is in view so he can watch movies from his bed he thanks me over and over again and when I get home he calls me thanks me again in all of this remember nothing went the way it could have one lesson could be no good deed goes unpunished or we could look at life as a series of events that allow us at any given time to rise above it even if my left leg is killing me right now take care signed Mike. I remember my mother used to have one of those. Expensive hospital beds that I think somebody had given it to her that she needed because of the. Because of the hip surgery no she had it before that she's had it for a really long time she doesn't have it now she doesn't need it but I remember how heavy it was was really really heavy he said that this dead of his mother's the hospital bed you know where the top goes up and down in the bottom goes up and down and it had been since every places with a remote it he says that his way had some number of billions of pounds or billions of tons or something not that much but a lot you couldn't possibly move this in or out of a house or into or out of a truck by yourself you couldn't do it no matter how strong you were he had hurt yourself just trying and I don't know why it had to be so heavy. Why do those things have to be so heavy there's an opportunity for somebody to make some money make it an adjustable you know a motorized adjustable bed that that only weighs do you know $2.00 or $300.00 pounds 2 kids could move. I read an article in arsed Technica dot com about researchers finding among other things an f.d.a. Rejected drug in so-called natural herbal supplements and vitamins in this drug is called Peer receipts m p I r a c e t m you might look at the various bottles of you know pills and purgatives and did not streams and whatever that you've got in your medicine cabinet or whatever vitamins you take look for Pyrrhus Eaton p I r a c e t am because if it's got that in it you don't want it it did so why did they put it in because they have a reason you especially if it's something some kind of pill that you've taken because you bought it on the web because it was supposed to help with your memory or make you be more focused or something he said I think that's what they think that that's for but anyway one who works in the vitamin department of a big grocery store and their companies give them samples of their products and give talks on the subject and take them out to dinner and stuff every once in a while and I don't think they get paid for these these things but they they learn about the different company's products at least from the point of view of the companies and 20 to tries out the different remedies for this and that so I wrote to her I was reading it I wonder if this stuff is in one of the vitamin pills you take it says people take it for brain clarity and memory and hands meant and so on but the studies equate it to a placebo for what they take it for except it has side effects and here they are insomnia anxiety education depression drowsiness and weight gain. Back No I had never heard of that stuff. We don't sell fad drugs at our store and while there is such a thing as Fand herbs we buy from reputable companies that prefer herbs with well established properties and when there are studies and I read the studies and pay attention to their provenance and their sourcing currently the conventional slash prescription drug world is far more risky than the natural stuff because of the natural industry having to withstand the suspicion of the f.d.a. All along so they have been working for the last half century to really clean up their act and be reputable Meanwhile the conventional drug world is always enjoying the f.d.a. Is trust when drugs from China entered the game a lot of the trust has been grossly misplaced all kinds of bad things began slipping through starting in the ninety's conventional companies do less testing and oversight than should be taking place it's already a common practice among herbalists that when new raw materials arrive they test them no matter what certifications they came with the best companies both test themselves using their own in-house quality control laboratory and they also employ a 3rd party independent laboratory to test as well. Meanwhile many conventional drug companies accept what they've been sent without testing this is a big deal there has been compounding pharmacies that have accepted probably that should be there have been compounding pharmacies that have accepted tainted ingredients for prescription drugs and people have been poisoned because pharmacies don't have a standing policy to always test incoming raw materials they would never find a larger company doing that the big ones all do their own testing and they all discovered years ago that new raw materials should never be trusted without testing 1st you must make sure that not only are you dealing with a reputable supplier but that every link in your supply chain is reputable and even then he still do in-house testing every time herbs herbs tracts everything so thoroughly you can use the lot number to trace are all the way back to where they were grown and on what farm we've had multi-vitamins for instance be out of stock for months because something failed the test and we wait. The parent company searches for a new supplier rather than continuing to deal with someone who has sold a bad product. And she answer emails to me with this is why I don't want you taking pills from Costco or the Dollar Store watchdog companies I found all kinds of garbage and so-called natural vitamins and herbs made by non-natural companies you can't just trust you have to investigate it yourself Well Ok. But it's just a vitamin pill and I don't but she doesn't want me to so fucking. Think about complying and possibly even comply because what does it cost me. X. Rays in the news is the title of an article with a lot of wonderful pictures in it just you say your it is it's in Mental Floss dot com The articles by mists Alania they recently reposed it I remember 1st reading you this article in September of the year 2007. When it was on K.M.'s b. I remember looking at these pictures it's just really interesting here x. Rays in the news miscellaneous. How far can cameras go to make the personal into the public pretty far considering how many news stories I've seen in the past year illustrated with x. Rays M.R.I.'s and medical tomography the idea of seeing inside the human body is strange enough without seeing the weird things that can happen inside the body of someone on the other side of the world some of the images in the story may be disturbing to some people and there's an image here in the article I remember and I don't how I only of the text here now but I remember looking at the article there. It's a whole torso and belly an x. Ray view and there are pinned sticking it different angles inside all through it. Little dark lines where there shouldn't be little dark lines inside somebody's body Here's the text 77 year old Jen cranking suffered from lifelong headaches when she was finally x. Rayed at Should young leniency hospital in China doctors were stunned to find. Not the right one sorry the other one a little bit later a bullet in her head this is the one with the bullet in the head too that's the problem with not bringing the pictures Qian remembered she had been shot during the Japanese invasion of 1943 but it only used herbal treatments for the wound at the time. 59 year old Margaret vegan or had a brain scan in Berlin to find the source of a constant headaches it was a pencil she had tripped and imbedded the pencil in her skull when she was 4 years old the bigger part of the pencil was finally removed but it smaller part was left as delicate nerves that grown over the 2 centimeter piece not causing any problems I just leave it in there and and she's Ok after all that or at least was in September of 2007 a duck with a broken wing and in California was x. Rayed and found to have an alien from outer space and it's got. An alien outer space creature shape sort of thing you can see that on the x. Ray The Duck did not survive and an autopsy found the alien was actually formed by grain. Gating in the birds to justice system still the x. Ray was sold via e. Bay auction to raise money for the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Fairfield California note this is the only patient in all of this story who is deceased. Here's the one with that goes with the picture that I remember 31 year old. Fan went to a hospital in China complaining of blood in her urine x. Rays showed that she had 26 needles imbedded in her body affecting her lungs kidneys brain and other organs doctors believe the needles were inserted when was an infant inserted by grandparents who were disappointed that she was born a girl I know I isn't that seizes What that and what kind of people then there was a curious case reported in The Lancet last summer of a middle aged man whose brain case was almost completely filled with fluid his actual brain was reduced 50 to 75 percent below normal size but he held a civil servants job and was not considered mentally impaired or retarded to stand shows his brain compared to the typical brain on the right it's like most of the brain is gone and it's just the rest of it is just fluid in there. Kevin Daugherty Was it by a nail gun in a workplace accident his coworker immediately drove to the hospital but they were stopped by Canada's finest on the way for speeding after seeing nails sticking out of Daugherty his forehead the officer allowed them to continue to the hospital but followed them so he could issue the driver a $167.00 ticket for not wearing a seat belt this one isn't exactly an x. Ray but it's a 3 d. Medical image showing how a chair leg the whole chair leg went through in 1000 year old Shafik l. Fuck Crees head during a bar brawl the Melbourne man survived the incident medical intervention saved his eyesight while because it goes looks like goes right through his eye. And down through his mouth and. Through his jaw and out the side of his neck just missing apparently the big blood vessel there that would have bled him to death in an instant if it hit that and missed his spine somebody he was fighting in a bar and how did that even get in there but somebody speared him maybe with it or maybe he was thrown to the ground and fell on the chair breaking the chair in the leg went up into his eye and you know through the whole rest of all those parts I don't fight kids because it did that could happen to you and I don't like to think of that happening to you just don't fight although these images are quite since ational what struck me about this series of stories was the public nature of these cases. This is miscellaneous writing at this point all these were news stories I remembered from the past year or 2 I didn't have to search for any of them excluding the duck all but one patient are identified by name all are from nations other than the us with the possible exception of the an identified patient in the us privacy laws allow medical images to be shared with medical personnel insurance companies lawyers law enforcement and others but not the press I don't know what the laws governing such images are in other countries maybe some of you do would you consider allowing pictures of the inside of your body to be published by a news outlet or does our concept of privacy only apply to our skin. Well at the we're coming really close to the end of the year and you might remember every year at the you know at the turning of the year at the very end of one year in the beginning of another year at the. Top of the clock of the year as it were I always read you. A few articles about the things that doctors have found shoved up people's butt and in various other orifices in their bodies because it's seems like the hundreds and hundreds sometimes thousands medical people see people come into the place and there they x. Ray people and they find that you know somebody has somehow managed to get a light bulb up inside there but entirely out of sight Of course they can't take it out because they're afraid they'll break it you know trying to because they break it then that's a little piece of glass horrible but why did they put that there in the 1st place for some sexual reason perhaps and people are always getting phone and and remote controls and electric toothbrushes shoved so far up inside their butt that they can't get out themselves and they have to go to the doctor and then what do they say when they go to their they always say the same thing I was in the shower and the dog barked and startles me or something startled me and I slipped and fell and it just fell just went I don't know how it got in there it's just the doctors look at the nurses and they look back at the person that said well let's just get it out of there and it doesn't matter how it got in there it it can't stay there we need to get it out because it's going to cause a problem and then the person is embarrassed they never put the person's name on it but they're the x. Rays that you can look at and think about that for a minute I look forward to reading those articles because there are some combination of. Squeamish and queasy making and just tell areas to think about. Why did the kids put beans in their ears because we told them no Here's something from the Andersonville advertiser by Jonah Raskin titled street fighting man Jonah Reston wrote I know your eyes are glued to the circus in d.c. And the slaughter that's taking place in Afghanistan and half a dozen other places in a world that's on fire I'm paying close attention to I'm also paying attention might strangely electrifying memories of that night I was arrested and beaten by a dozen or so New York City cops until I was black and black my skull cracked open a bones broken there have been were speeding since then but at the time the a.c.l.u. Said it was the worst beating in New York City history 50 years later some of my bones Evan healed several fingers are crooked and to near constant reminder of the occasion when my pal Robert rightly and I were detained for hours in 2 precincts in Manhattan and worked over so to speak at the behest of John Finnegan known informally as Captain Jack the head of the infamous red scribe which was the subject decades ago of a documentary by Charles Zucker of Pacific Street films. Sucre tracked Finnegan to Hawaii where he had retired and then turned the tables on the man whose job it was to keep track of protesters and tell cops who to beat. Finnegan who always looked impeccably Ivy League fingered me and Riley and other demonstrators who were in the streets of midtown Manhattan on the night of December 969 and ready for bloodshed there were more than 3000 of us armed with the rocks bottles and clubs we were protesting to things the assassinations of 2 Chicago Black Panthers Mark Clark and Fred Hampton 5 days earlier while they were asleep and the fact that Nixon was in the Waldorf Astoria where he received the National Football Foundation's gold medal Nixon delivered a speech which I read days later in which he said he believed quote and telling the truth about football and everything and that quote Our great assets are not our military strength or our economic wealth but that America's young people produce the kind of men that we have in American football today that's Nixon and speaking imagine it in his voice the voice of the man who who fucked up the peace talks so he could win the election in 1968 and got thousands and thousands of American boys killed and ruined chances of shutting off the Vietnam War years earlier than it did and he got to live out his life in relative peace and luxury and sit with his feet up watching t.v. And drinking sweet tea until he died of old age that's what happens to these people after they get a bunch of people killed you kill one person and you're a monster you kill a 1000000 people and you're a hero for some reason or for some a too big to fail and like the banks you have to bribe one Rob one person of you know what they've got in their pocket and they put you in prison for Unified of years depending if you used a gun 10 years but if you do you rob thousands of people. Of their lives and livelihoods and wrecked their lives and take their houses away from them and you get to retire with their with millions of dollars to spend I'm sorry I just why I don't know why I feel like this because everything's all coming together at once and it's 2 30 in the morning and I'm just going to take a sip of my tea and slow down and finish reading this article by Jonah Raskin. American football today said Nixon Turner rest and continues by the time that December 1969 rolled along I had been protesting for a decade on the campus of Columbia where I was a student and on the streets of New York which I knew almost as well as I knew the campus I was arrested and jailed twice by December 1969 over the course of the 1960 s. I protested against segregation and for integration against nuclear testing and for peace against the House committee of Un-American Activities and against the Vietnam War there were a lot of reasons to protest on one occasion in 1963 I protested all by myself the arrival in the Columbia campus of the notorious met him new n.h.u. Known from 155-2963 as the 1st lady of Vietnam what especially irked me was that she mocked the Buddhist monk think Kwan don't cook after he set fire to himself on a Saigon street to protest the persecution of Buddhist by the regime of Godin Kim. Knew labeled sick Dukes self-immolation a barbecue and stated quote let them burn and we shall clap our hands. I struck the window of the limousine in which she was seated and watched her flinch. But 969 I had signed a petition sent telegrams written letters to several presidents marched in front of the White House and joined picket lines in Manhattan on December 9th I wanted to do something I had never done before put my body on the line was not what Mario salvia . Suggested we do and damage property as a way to make a statement that words on the page seemed inadequate to convey after I was arrested and beaten and charged with criminal anarchy and attempted murder of a police officer a college friend came to visit me in my apartment you were crazy to do what you did he told me perhaps I was to smash 6 huge plate glass windows at Saks 5th Avenue or the posh department store took a certain degree of madness though smashing windows or trashing as it was known had become a frequent form of protest and even a way of life by the end of the decade at least for protesters known as militants. Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones that popularized the idea of rioting when they saying Everywhere I hear the sound of marching charging feet the time is right for fighting in the streets a few years later Nick Lowe would sing I love the sound of breaking glass I need the noises of destruction those apocalyptic songs didn't cause me to trash I can't blame Jagger and lo I had plenty of pent up motives some personal some overtly political without their lyrics to go it may still there hit songs reflected my own feelings and the collective experience that was expressed in the streets of Los Angeles New York and Chicago where the Weathermen staged their days of rage with the u p s 3 up against the wall motherfuckers and other left wing groups it was cool to trash. I started the evening's festivities on December 9 by hurling a few rocks which I had brought with me for the occasion I aimed them at the window outside the office of t a p the Portuguese airline which cracked and then shattered into a 1000 pieces a kid with an aerosol can spray sari aerosol can spray painted the words off the pig on the wall of a nearby building mounted cops drove their horses into the crowd and though we retreated briefly we also be groups Christmas lights twinkled in the darkness I made my way from 5th Avenue to 50th Street admired St Patrick's Cathedral and then looked with a kind of longing at the seductive windows at Saks 5th Avenue I picked up a club that happened to be lying in the street and held it in my hand suddenly a window cracked and a mannequin an evening gown collapsed someone shouted the pigs are coming no matter I thought and after I heard the lovely sound of breaking glass I wanted to hear them again I smashed a total of 6 windows and then ran east toward Madison Avenue. Several men one of them wearing a tie dyed shirt and fringe jacket came toward I've barreled my way ahead but they began to club me I raised my hands or my head to protect myself and then fell to the sidewalk one of the men had a gun another were a bench I looked down and saw that I was handcuffed and so was Bob Riley a 40 year old New York high school teacher who tried to protect me and who was rewarded by being beaten and arrested. At some point we were both taken to Roosevelt Hospital my battered head took about 18 or so stitches I thought the worst was over and started Bob's wife Barbara my mother in law and his dying of my dear friend Dana Bieber men who stood outside the entrance to the hospital and watched as we were taken away in a squad car that night and well into the next morning the police moved us from one precinct to another at the 18th an a.c.l.u. Lawyer in impulsion who specialized in cases of police brutality tried to talk to us and was prevented from doing so and about midnight we were taken to this 17 pushed down a flight of stairs and careened off the walls. 2 cops one Irish and the other Italian both Vietnam veterans and the ringleaders of the beating moved Riley and me quickly past the desk sergeant and hurled us into a back room where a dozen or so men took turns kicking hitting and verbally abusing us while we were handcuffed facing the wall so we couldn't see anyone clearly or know when a blow was coming it didn't help matters that my glasses were removed and crushed when Compu of been watching the it's all to prochoice me and said You're getting off easy they are to kill you I lost track of time and felt like I was losing consciousness don't fall down Riley told me if you do the kick you in your face in your balls I forced myself to stay awake one cop held my outstretched hand and said I want to see any trick he struck a match and placed it under the palm of my left hand Yeah it hurt it was a neat trick. Another comp filled a bucket with cold water and emptied it over my head then we were taken in a squad car to the 4th Precinct along with a hippie kid who rapped nonstop about his commune on the Lower East Side and how he felt about Nixon in the war in Vietnam he sound like a communist one of the cops said the hippie kid brazenly replied I don't want no government and no cops in my country the author after being I say that's a caption of a picture that I don't remember even looking at I must have read this on my computer at home which is on dial up where I can only look at text basically and then stop at loading some of the text can appear for me to get and read and then I can open up another website just for the text while I'm reading I could probably put a whole show together. Just on dial up but it would be it would be a pain in the ass it would be very hard to do but I could do it if I had to. Sorry . Jonah Rincon Rascon sorry. Jonah Rascon continuous. In court the next day bail was set at $30000.00 my father and my mother in law put up $3000.00 cash Riley and I walked the Village Voice published my photo on page one along with a story by Jack Newfield that provided me with a degree of notoriety the New York Times ran a story that said 2 are arrested at and t. Next in protest say they were beaten by police a few days after the beating a photographer from youth against war in fascism boisterous Marxist Leninist organization took pictures of my battered and bruised body and gave them to shaving me at the a.c.l.u. His office was burgled and the photos rubbed nothing else was taken from there so. I remember that when I returned to my apartment the day after the beating I looked into the bathroom mirror and didn't recognize myself my hair was matted and bloody my skin blue and purple one I was partially closed I swallowed a couple of Demmer all and went to bed the next morning when a long time friend came to console me I pretended that nothing bad it really happened I opened a volume with chaise essays and Che Guevara's essays and read aloud Whatever death may surprise us let it be welcome provided that our battle cry has reached a receptive ear and another hand has reached out to take up our weapons and quote. Decade of the 1980 s. Was ending and the 60s were busy being born I was never arrested again though I went into the streets to protest for another decade or so I learned to act clandestinely and when I needed to to run very fast from the cops and elude capture and to beating. Joan arrestin who wrote the piece that I just read to you is the author of For the hell of it the life and times of Abbie Hoffman and another book American Scream Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the making of the Beat Generation. So that's the kind of problems people used to have here the kind of problems white people have now I mean thinking of white people in those days and white people now teens convicted of exploiting themselves this is entire wiki would be done blogspot dot com t y w k I w d.b.i. Things you wouldn't know if we didn't blog intermittently as what that stands for as reported in The Guardian a teenage boy in North Carolina has been prosecuted for having nude pictures of himself on his own phone the young man who is now 17 but was 16 at the time the photos were discovered had to strike a plea deal to avoid going to jail and being registered as a sex offender. Experts condemn the case is ludicrous the boy was however punished by the courts and had to agree to be subject to warrantless searches by law enforcement for a year in addition to other penalties the young man was also named in the media and suffered a suspension is quarterback of his high school football team while the case was being resolved. Name redacted of Fayetteville North Carolina was prosecuted as an adult under federal child pornography felony laws for sexually exploiting a minor. The miner was himself name redacted was charged with 4 counts of making in possessing images of himself and one count of possessing a negative image of his 16 year old girlfriend his girlfriend name redacted took a plea deal after being prosecuted on similar charges for having naked suggestive pictures of herself on her phone while the pictures were technically illegal actuals sex would not be the age of consent for sexual intercourse in North Carolina is 16 he was prosecuted for having his own and his girlfriend's image despite them not having been shared further the legal bind came because the 2 were over 16 and so could be charged as adults in North Carolina as is common with some felonies but the crimes they were being charged with related to laws against sexually exploiting minors each was therefore simultaneously the adult perpetrator who is considered a predator and the minor victim who needs protecting by the law there are about 10 or 12 mostly conservative states where they will prosecute kids for this set lane and it is a kind of moral values thing they're trying to make an example of them because it's believed to be inappropriate behavior. Meanwhile in the old days it's again me see if I can read that Ken has to wrote something that I read in the Anderson Valley Advertiser This is from the archives there this has appeared in the a v.a. August 23 in the year 2000 so almost 20 years ago very long time ago Marines and timber Cowboys is the title can Hearst wrote. When I returned home to our beautiful Anderson Valley from my tour of duty with the Army paratroopers just before Christmas of 1962 it was an extraordinarily brilliant day crisp but cloudless with the blue sky stretching to the golden hills in the east and reaching back over to the tall green red words to the rippling Pacific in the West I had hitched a ride from Santa Rosa to Mountain View Road at the north end of Booneville where the people from the old country of Arkansas had 1st set foot in the fertile valley at the Merritt fire she's sawmill in 1944 I decided to walk the 5 miles to file Oh and then another mile beyond filer to Hollyfield lumber company where my parents had lived and worked since 1055 I want to reclaim my home by walking in the fragrance of its country smell blended with that scent of smoke coming from the big owners of the lumber mills whose fires incessantly devoured the waste wood culled from the timber while producing heart wood lumber excuse me just a moment. Ok in 1962 the goods produced by the valleys to dozens were diversified but the big cash crop still was the lumber there were many acres of Apple and prune orchards but only a couple of small vineyards cheap and cattle grazed on the hillsides but 20 sawmills were spread throughout the valley. The mills were surrounded by the shacks of the people who worked in them or fell timber set chokers or worked as cats skinners in the mountains many of the men in their families came from Arkansas to the Golden State of California in a desperate search for jobs many of these men were veterans of World War 2 and a few years later the Korean War and many of them were intimate with the violence of war and the deprivations of the spirit those who fought somehow had to endure. And Anderson Valley a Arkansas veterans found work in the tall timber and in the sawmills the work was brutally hard and often boringly repetitious but the men soon grew fit and strong so they no longer collapsed at the day's final whistle the 5th men then crowded into the valleys many bars 6 days a week but especially on Fridays and Saturdays because of the physical nature of their work their muscles and veins pulsated with bread blood so arguments quickly became fist fights that spilled out of the bars and onto the streets on Sundays the women took their men to the family's many crowded Pentecostal churches to beg forgiveness for their sins the men and women ran their faces to gain credit for purchases from the valleys kind but pragmatic merchants ran their faces I don't know what that means the families moved from their original tents and lean tos into the shacks that quickly constructed near the mills then in the early 1950 s. The women from the old country made their men install indoor bathrooms and sand the rugged floorboards and make additions to their shacks to accommodate growing families the shacks became homes new homes in the beautiful valley between the golden green hills that ran almost to the blue Pacific. Successful Boonville successful Boonville longer and land landowner Willis Tucker. Was Born midway between Glenwood and Hot Springs Arkansas but he and his family moved to Mount Arkansas where Willis attended school before he came to Anderson Valley in 1047 Willetts Willis had been a Marine and fought hard in courageously in the South Pacific campaign. He was blown up by mortar fire inside pan but he was quickly patched up enough to hold his body together and sent back to his outfit just in time to be with the 1st wave of Marines to attack it would Jima it should go without saying Willis Tucker is here against odds few people survive Tucker told me recently on the front steps of lemons market in file a. Quote Most of us Marines in the 1st wave never got any farther than from here to stars garage on that island before we were cut down by shrapnel from big ordinance shooting bombs or rifle fire the air was thick with lead I wasn't shot but I was blown up again I had so much shrapnel in my buttocks and back that they couldn't fix me up so they sent me home to Fort Miley hospital in San Francisco has treated me goodness shrapnel still there it doesn't hurt me on the outside but it hurts me inside and my organs but I've made it Ok for a long time I picked up a virus on those islands that caused me to swell up he continued That was the painful stuff. Did your dad ever talk about his time over there he suddenly and asked me he started to talk about it one time I said when he told me he saw his friend get sliced open with a bayonet in his guts came spilling out but he stopped talking and wouldn't continue Tucker told me that time in the war affected everybody who was there in his own way he turned a corner in your mind the mind turned a corner when my mind turned a corner when a big ole boy from Missouri that was my friend got it he acted like it was fate that would decide things he would go to sleep at night in his foxhole but I would always nudge him awake so he could be alert. One night we were separated for a night and in the morning I went to his foxhole he was dead I climbed in the foxhole to lift him out his head almost came off I mean every man in the company get into that hole and left it to his body so that they could see what would happen if they fell asleep I didn't want to lose any more Marines but then we hit the beach and he would Jima and most of us in that 1st wave were taken down anyway. Did your dad ever get that virus Tucker asked me again I nodded and said they used purple stuff on him I think Tucker said Me too but the purple stuff didn't work and oh boy an interesting Valley told me he knew how to get rid of that virus if he had the grit to do it I told that man I believe I have the grit Tucker went on I got plenty of bottles of I again and my wife locked me in the bedroom and I rubbed a rough warm towel on that virus until all my poor is under my arms and on my legs and beneath my privates were open and raw then I poured I a Dana over wherever that virus was and I felt like I was on fire when I got through that night and was let out of the bedroom the next morning the virus was gone and never bothered me again. Tucker continued I was in charge of that job up on Peach land when your granddaddy got killed that log should never have been able to get angled around enough to get to your daddy and Granddaddy it took all the height off your daddy's back and would have hurt him bad if he wasn't so big and step out that log just hit your granddaddy in the right place to kill him it was just plain bad luck your daddy no and no Burchfield Tucker recalled smiling helped me put up my 1st house real quick at the Boonville lumber company when I came to the valley to work at merits mill in 1947 I always said there wasn't a square room in the house because they were hurrying and it never built a house before. On that cool blue sunny day in late December of 1962 when I got home I walked from Mountain View Road to file Oh and reclaimed the valley in my senses and in my mind when I topped the rise leading into file Oh I saw a group of armed men out in front of the market now lemons market I wondered if they were trying to get an early start on deer season or if there might be some kind of shooting competition under way I approached borough along who had been a long time neighbor of mine in Hollyfield lumber before I enlisted in the Army and I asked him what's going on with you guys in your rifles barrel replied welcome home Ken Well the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang came through here last week and beat the stuffings out of one of our friends because he couldn't afford to buy the whole gang a beer return for one of them buying him a beer thinking said they were going to come back today to pick up their beers and that we'd better be ready to pour cold beer for all of them I said What are you guys going to do with the guns barrel said we're going to have our best shots shoot out the front tires of the front 2 rows of cycles as they come over the rise they'll be style and so it won't be hard targets to hit we don't want to shoot them we just want the cycles to stack up over the cycles that we have down by shooting up their front tires I asked what then. Pearl replied Well we just want them to apologize for being so rude and tell them to buy their own beer Gene Walker told me recently after they left they came through Boonville and roughed up Russell man a little bit at the Boonville lodge man who owned the lodge at the time ton per diem he remembered that he wasn't there but he had heard that before the bikers could cause much serious trouble at the Lodge a couple a logger as went to their pick ups and pulled out shotguns and had someone pull the power plug to the lodge plunging the bar into darkness one of the loggers then called out the 1st one to light a match will be shot the angels waited about 5 minutes and then started their cycles and left town it was certainly fortunate for everyone that the Hells Angels didn't return the following Saturday when I walked into phyla Tucker also remember the famous incidents quote I wasn't there in 62 but I would guess that most of the men were veterans and that they were loggers loggers are a breed apart it's hard work and dangerous work unless everyone works together it doesn't matter where you're from or what your particular beliefs are loggers take up for other loggers because they trust each other as friends. When the men in their families came to Anderson Valley beginning in 1944 they found families that had already set deep roots in the valley some of the families that the people from the old country considered old timers when they arrived in 1944 were the blades and the neighbor East the Clarks the clouds the gallants the birds the prey there's the Hyatt's the roles as the tomans and McGimpsey dealy show no Pardine Johnson word prince lay no Bennett Valente title Rossi glow for and June certainly these folks weren't all of the old time or families when the southerners from the old country streamed into their midst in the 2 decades between 1904 in 1964 but they were a large part of the many folks who allowed a relatively graceful entry into a new land that would become a permanent home to many of the job seekers from Arkansas. It was the fairness and honesty of these old timers families and the kindness and pragmatism of the Valley's merchants that allowed the Archy's to run their face to purchase the necessary supplies to put the boom into the Boom Town years from 144 to 964 I still don't know what that means run they're faced as Wilma brink remarked they didn't like us at 1st but when they got to know us they did like us because we were just like them the old maverick from Hopper Arkansas Buster Hollyfield told me before he died those were sure good decent folks out there in California in Anderson Valley I take my hat off to them because I think of a bunch of wild whooping and hollering x. Soldiers came into Hopper getting drunk and fighting things wouldn't have gone as easy. One of the last deeds Buster performed in Anderson Valley in the early sixty's before moving back home to Arkansas was to dive bomb the new high school 3 times in his airplane Bob Mathias a prominent Valley realtor these days was then a young Anderson Valley High School Superintendent just settling into his new job Matthias told me a couple of weeks ago that quote Buster took off from the airport behind school and dive bomb the school 3 times he just about peeled the paint off the roof I had to stop that so I called the authorities to investigate later Buster came down to the school and he looked at me real hard and he said I'm sorry I shocked you folks that was supposed to be free entertainment. It's a minute to 3 k. In way well before it Bragg k m e c o p Ukiah. A little music and then I'll be back in about 5 minutes with another 45 minutes or an hour of middle of the air and then between 4 and 5 actually I should start a little before 4. I'll tell you now it to whiten tell you before. That there is a reading series Mendocino Theater Company does a reading series not the main stage productions but on the stage where in between the weekends where the main play runs they have people sit on the stage in chairs and and just read aloud the parts of a play and not necessarily do sound effects last year we did yesterday Rides Again with the full radio show production you know and and also the War of the worlds there and which you can find on k n y O's website if you like and listen to that that worked out very well but. I was disappointed that they didn't want to do you know sound effects and a whole radio show production for the African Queen the Lux Radio Theater dramatization of African Queen which Mervin Gilbert was putting on with Mark Friedrich and Steve were then and the amazing and wonderful Gino Farrel but then I saw it and. Recorded it on Wednesday night just 3 people sitting in chairs and one man sitting at a lectern no sound effects no light effects no anything just people sitting in chairs and talking and it's wonderful and she you know feral I mean you can hear her she became Katherine Hepburn to do this they're all great and I took the sound from the video I shot and and brought it here to play it for you it's it's an hour and a couple of minutes long so I have to start it. Maybe 10 minutes to 4 so a little music and then another 45 minutes of stories and then Mervin Gilbert's production with the Mendocino Theater Company of the African Queen that's what's coming when I play for you at this juncture. Russian so I like my questions and I play something in Russian for you and then maybe something after that and more memory with Vieira in about 5 minutes so don't go away.